ESPN Top 100 Player rankings....

[MHettel]

Just copying Big East guys right from the list...

99. Devion Smith- SJU
70. Wooga Poplar- Villanova
68. Freemantle- XU
67. Aiden Mahaney- UConn
48. Pop Isaacs- Creighton
28. Eric Dixon- Villanova
27. Liam McNeeley- UConn
26. Byrce Hopkins- Providence
15. Kadary Richmond- SJU
11. Kam Jones- Marquette
10. Alex Karaban- UConn
8. Ryan Kalkbrenner- Creighton


uh, sobering. The whole conference has 12 of the top 100 Players? Some of the other "power" conference are larger with 16 or more teams, but this is kinda shocking.

Seems like the BE is proportionally low. And no players in the top 7, but yet its a top 3 league, right? (notwithstanding that 3 bid disaster from last year). 4 guys between 8-15 I guess is good. 7 of the top 28.

[GoMuskies]

We have 11 of 79 power conference teams (13.9%). We have 12% of the top 100 players (according to this preseason guess from ESPN). Seems pretty close to where it should be (given that there are surely some non-power conference players on the list).

[Xville]

Just copying Big East guys right from the list...

99. Devion Smith- SJU
70. Wooga Poplar- Villanova
68. Freemantle- XU
67. Aiden Mahaney- UConn
48. Pop Isaacs- Creighton
28. Eric Dixon- Villanova
27. Liam McNeeley- UConn
26. Byrce Hopkins- Providence
15. Kadary Richmond- SJU
11. Kam Jones- Marquette
10. Alex Karaban- UConn
8. Ryan Kalkbrenner- Creighton


uh, sobering. The whole conference has 12 of the top 100 Players? Some of the other "power" conference are larger with 16 or more teams, but this is kinda shocking.

Seems like the BE is proportionally low. And no players in the top 7, but yet its a top 3 league, right? (notwithstanding that 3 bid disaster from last year). 4 guys between 8-15 I guess is good. 7 of the top 28.

It’s espn. Do you really think 1.) they have a clue? and 2.) that they are going to be favorable to the big East when other leagues are big partners of theirs?

[MHettel]

It’s espn. Do you really think 1.) they have a clue? and 2.) that they are going to be favorable to the big East when other leagues are big partners of theirs?

1). Yes
2). I don’t really think this concept of part of the equation.

Do you disagree with those answers?

Do you believe that ESPN (Jeff Borzello) doesn’t have a clue?

Do you believe that Disney, the parent company of ESPN has instructed the ESPN staff to drive revenue by undermining the competing networks that show BE (and other non ESPN league) games by omitting or underrating the players from those leagues? In this the world you live in?

[Xavier]

Does this matter? Did it matter last year or the year before? What’s the correlation between top 100 players and National championships?

[GoMuskies]

I counted them up, and 17 of the top 100 are from non-power conference teams (3 or 4 are from Gonzaga). So to recap, the Big East has 11 of 79 power conference teams (18 Big "10", 18 SEC, 16 ACC, 16 Big "12" and 11 Big East) or 13.9% of the power conference teams. The Big East has 12 of the top 83 power conference players, or 14.5%.

So what's the problem (other than from Xavier's perspective only having #68 and that being a guy who hasn't played in two years)?

[Xville]

1). Yes
2). I don’t really think this concept of part of the equation.

Do you disagree with those answers?

Do you believe that ESPN (Jeff Borzello) doesn’t have a clue?

Do you believe that Disney, the parent company of ESPN has instructed the ESPN staff to drive revenue by undermining the competing networks that show BE (and other non ESPN league) games by omitting or underrating the players from those leagues? In this the world you live in?

Do I disagree? I don’t care. These things are very subjective especially considering there are a lot of guys on new teams and some guys that have never played college bb before.

Jeff borzello have a clue? Not more than anyone else. He’s a writer, does that give him some kind of special basketball knowledge?

I 100% believe it’s possible that Disney would.

I think you find new and creative ways to whine, which is something.

[xu82]

ESPN is hot garbage when it comes to anything related to college basketball. I used to check their recruiting info and it was laughable. It looked like a middle schooler’s abandoned project with terribly out of date information. I generally don’t like or watch ESPN, but that was embarrassing and should have been taken down.

So no, I don’t give a rat’s ass what they think of anything.

[ArizonaXUGrad]

ESPN has had an intended or unintended bias in sports for years favoring the conferences they have affiliations. The SEC push for football has been criticized for years.

[GoMuskies]

OK, but where's the bias here? The Big East is overrepresented among power conferences.